Improve your creativity with flexible thinking [79]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The idea for this episode was sparked by the book "Coaching the Artist Within" by Eric Maisel which Alice has been revisiting. If you've ever caught yourself thinking you must be 'this' or 'that' in order to be a creative success this might help you shift your ideas.
We talk about the author's ideas on dualistic thinking. Too often, Maisel suggests, we feel we must choose one way or another, without allowing for the possibility that we could actually be both. In fact, he argues, a truly creative life requires us to allow in one more than one possibility. We discuss this idea in the context of self-judgment, defining our art style, and the rules we place on our work.
We also debate the idea of doing 'meaningful work' and answer a listener question about selling prints. We both believe that prints can be a valuable addition to your business, but as with anything their success will depend on the time and energy you put into them.
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"Coaching the Artist Within" - Eric Maisel
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| 0:00.0 | Where do you catch yourself, where you've made rules that you feel you have to stick to or you have to live with. Hi and welcome to episode 79 of Art Juice. This is honest generous and humorous conversations to feed your |
| 0:24.3 | creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:29.4 | And today we are going to answer a listener question about Prince and our main topic is about the idea of black and white thinking. |
| 0:41.0 | And we don't know where that conversation is going to go so we're just |
| 0:44.9 | going to see what happens but before we find out what happens what are you working on |
| 0:51.1 | this week, Alice? |
| 1:05.2 | So I've realized that there's an event coming up in September that we weren't sure that was going to go ahead or not, but it is, so that's very nice. It will be in East Sussex and I will be showing with the cow shed collective which sounds fun doesn't it so I've been having yeah I've been having a little bit of a |
| 1:12.1 | review of current work that I've got available and thinking |
| 1:17.0 | about what other pieces I want to kind of bring to fruition in that time. |
| 1:23.5 | And really I'm working on, I've got three mid-sized pieces |
| 1:27.0 | that I'm working on that are quite, |
| 1:29.2 | they're quite landscape in feel or form, |
| 1:31.9 | and I've been using your little mini studies that we did as a way to help |
| 1:37.1 | shift those and it's quite interesting because they're giving me a little bit of a grounding |
| 1:46.1 | which makes me feel freer in the way that I can approach the painting of those because I don't want them to end up as I want them to be pushed off edge more than being fully representational landscapes. |
| 1:59.6 | So it's having those is helping me go off track a little bit more and I've been thinking more about color, |
| 2:06.0 | not necessarily pre-mixing color but just working with color in a slightly more aware way rather than completely random let's chuck everything on and see what |
| 2:17.0 | happens way and it's it's been nice I'm enjoying it actually so is it the compositions of the little ones that is helping it's almost the |
| 2:28.0 | simplicity of them so that and another exercise that I've been doing for myself with limited color within a sketchbook. |
| 2:36.0 | It's just really just pulling me back towards a degree of simplicity and yet I know that if it were that simple in a big |
| 2:46.4 | painting it would be dull so it's struggling with this sense of yes this is |
| 2:51.8 | something that looks great on a three-inch basis because there's a single |
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